ANNE: SATURNAL DAYS
Waking up in Tomar, the day after our arrival from the Azores, I feel down.“Oh my god, you too?” Ton groans, turning to me. His eyes peek above the sheet and they don’t look cheerful. “I had a weird dream,” I…
Category Connecting the Dots
ANNE: THE RHINO PLAN
There are videos that hit like a bomb. Not only because they carry a compelling message. But also because of the way they coincide with our own works and dreams. We often feel compelled to do certain things or travel…
ANNE: a joyful chaos
“It will be a joyful chaos“, the goddess Cale told me, the day our group gathered in Hotel Dos Templarios in Tomar. “But that’s the way I work,” she went on with a wink. Since I started travelling through Portugal, this…
ANNE: a chivalrous tale
During our three-year journey into the unknown, I was hardly prompted to seek external information. You would think that such a trip would give a huge space of free time, time to read and do all sorts of fun things…
TON: THE GODDESS IN PORTUGAL
Researching the ancient Celtic roots of Europe As we sit in the Igreja Matriz in the town of Mertola, we muse over the word Matriz. The word refers to Mary, the Mother, but it also has other meanings: womb, uterus,…
ONE GOD, ONE LAND, one love
by Ton van der Kroon, travellog Sinai, october 2023 Two weeks after the world woke up in shock and horror on 7 October, Anne and I are travelling towards the Sinai desert. ‘Is it wise to go?” we ask ourselves.…
ANNE: GODFORGOTTEN
As I sit in the garden of the Templar castle in Tomar, I am suddenly reminded of our visit to the garden of the Orval monastery a few weeks ago, when we completed our five-day retreat with our group around…
TON: YOU SHALL NOT PASS
“You look like Gandalf,” a woman calls out as I walk out of the gate at Les Contes with walking stick and backpack. I’m going out into the mountains alone for two days. I am wearing gray pants and a…
TON: THE NEW JERUSALEM
While I am waiting for 1,5 hours in the airplane to fly back to Portugal – after two weeks in the Netherlands and Belgium – the stewardess announces: “Dear people, due to a broken air conditioner, we can’t take off…
TON: AMAZON CALLING
For a while now, I have been doing yoga weekly again. After my teacher Anat passed away, it took me a long time to find my feet again. But across the street from me there is a new yoga school,…